A Christmas stocking for the Wandle
Christmas comes but once a year, apparently, but for the Wandle it almost always starts early… … with a seasonal stocking (ho ho ho) of…
Wandle fly patterns: an ancient chalkstream tradition re-emerges in the pages of FF&FT
A few weeks ago, celebrated fishing writer Peter Lapsley came down to the Wandle to interview Will and me for December’s issue of Fly Fishing…
Wands AGM and Trafalgar Drinks 2009
Another great year for the Wandle Piscators – and as if to prove it, another superb AGM on Trafalgar Day last week, in the upper…
World Rivers Day 2009
On the last Sunday of September, World Rivers Day is celebrated throughout the world. It has become an annual event with participants staging a wide…
Riverfly monitoring walks Tall on the Wandle
Since October 2007, the Wandle Piscators have been running the Wandle’s cell of the national Riverfly Partnership‘s Anglers’ Monitoring Initiative, checking the river’s water quality…
Wander up the Wandle: Dry fly only
Flyfishing the Wandle can sometimes seem like a Quixotic calling – so Andrew Todd took it to the max when he won his Wander up…
The Hunt is on…
So… what with working away at this, that and the other, some of us still haven’t spent as much time as we’d like fishing the…
The Wandle Species Hunt: let the Games begin!
The “Glorious Sixteenth” of June always holds special promise for river-anglers: as Chris Yates put it a couple of days ago, “by taking a three-month break…
Wandle Riverfly Monitoring
‘O plunge your hands in water, Plunge them in up to the wrist; Stare, stare into the basin And wonder what you’ve missed’ Unfortunately,…
5 things to do in the Wandle’s close season…
With dace-chasing and barbel-baiting suspended for the coarse-fishing close season on the Wandle, your tireless Wands committee has put together 5 top ideas for filling…